WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH OUR SUPERSTITIOUS FATHERS
Lucille Mona Ling
unlearned love crawls
into their arms, children
Not us
others,
self-made or
left
in the cribs of water lilies
eastern statues of stars
embedded in the octagonal petal dress
they wear bracelets around their wrists
Don’t let me continue
Don’t let me continue
you’d rather I erase these
symbols of fractal misinterpretation
the red crying
the infinite yellow wishes for better roofs
I have seen your hands dance
To music
Loud in the shell of the metallic
car
care
taker
Takeaway the t
and you leave the puppet
Aching
achieving inanimate emotions
known to AI
ai
to love
aime
love me
there are so many languages ai
Can learn
I
Can learn
to aimlessly improvise healing
The tea leaves that predicted
green misfortunes have now rotten into
Auspiciousness,
I remember how you listened
To hypnotic
To repetitive
Music inaccessible
to small ears
Too hypnotic
Too repetitive
too small
too childish
Listen to the outside, beyond
the rhythm lie
goosebumps:
hills of transcen
dance
Notes:
1. Stern means ‘star’ in German.
2. Ai means ‘love’ in Chinese.
3. J’aime means ‘I love’ in French